Outgoing Parly session passed a measly 9/29 Bills

THE outgoing First Session of the Ninth Parliament failed to meet expectations after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a busy legislative agenda of 29 Bills to be brought before Parliament for crafting, but only nine Bills were successfully crafted into law.

Leader of the House in the National Assembly, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi last year told NewsDay that it would not be business as usual in the new dispensation, but these statements have been proved wrong as ministers were notorious for truancy during Wednesday’s question-and-answer sessions in the National Assembly and Thursdays in the Senate.

The nine Bills crafted and enacted into law by Parliament included the Maintenance of Peace and Order Act, and business oriented laws such as the Micro Finance Amendment Act, the Consumer Protection law, the Companies and other Business Enterprises Act, the Tripartite Negotiation Forum Act and four laws to do with passing the 2019 National Budget and the 2019 supplementary budget — the Finance No 2 Act and the Appropriation 2019 Act.

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